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Abstract
Based on observation and exploratory study conducted with employees holding different positions in four governmental and private banks in Cairo and Giza, employees revealed that most desirable aspects needed in their leaders would fall under transformational leadership behaviors; with an emphasis that leaders would affect their overall performance, loyalty, readiness to give more to the company and engagement. 3 Meanwhile, a limited number of studies and research were done in the area of leadership behaviour and the impact of different leadership behaviours on employee engagement in Egypt. It was denoted that despite the considerable attention that was given to employee engagement construct in the last twenty years, lack of academic research focusing on exploring more about engagement would represent a challenge nowadays (Saks, 2006; Macey & Schneider, 2008). The limitation of research in the area of engagement and leadership would be significant in Egypt as only one research of Burke & El-Kot, (2010) studied the antecedents and consequences of work engagement in Egypt. Also, through checking the websites of some Egyptian companies, It was found that some business companies are aware of the concept of engagement and its importance to the company as a whole. Employee engagement has been receiving recently a considerable amount of attention and significance among many organizations worldwide; which made it crucial for managers and leaders to be conversant about the factors that might affect or drive employee engagement in their organizations. Of these factors was leadership behaviour; leadership behavior was mentioned in a considerable number of studies as one of the important antecedents of employee engagement (Kahn, 1990; Saks, 2006; Maslach et al., 2008; Robinson et al., 2004; Demerouti et al., 2001; DDI, 2004; Towers, 2012; Nimon & Zigrami, 2011; Muthuvelo, 2013; Shuck & Rose, 2013; Rich et al., 2010; Zuckerman, 2014; Kenedy & Tugrul, 2009). Leadership was mentioned throughout the studies either directly or indirectly, through pointing out to some of the behaviours that would be applied by leaders in order to advance engagement levels in the organization